Conway complained during an interview on The Kelly File that Hillary Clinton focused too much on Trump’s history with women, and said Trump’s opinion was that “it’s not nice that you’re running hundreds of millions of dollars in negative ads against me, and he has a point.”

Kelly pointed out that political advertisements aren’t expected to be nice, and Clinton was only running ads that were using Trump’s own negative remarks about women. But Conway accused the Clinton campaign of cherry-picking quotes to paint Trump in a poor light.

Kelly didn’t let Conway off easily and took an opportunity to hammer away at some of the recent statements Trump had made.

“You raise the question about, you know, he made a couple comments over 25 years. You know that’s not true. You know he has repeatedly made comments about women, about their looks, about their size, their weight,” Kelly said. “Even in this campaign, talking about Carly Fiorina’s face, retweeting a negative picture about Heidi Cruz’s face. Criticizing Hillary Clinton and her look. And Kellyanne, this is an issue for him, is it not?”

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Conway acknowledged that could be a possibility, but still criticized Clinton for continuing to score political points by bringing up Trump’s record with women.

“Because she’s killing him with women and she sees an advantage there and she’s trying to exploit it,” Kelly said. “And my question to you is whether he needs to come up with a better answer than telling Fox and Friends, well, she gained a bunch of weight when she won Miss Universe and she was a real problem.”

Conway did note that Trump should pivot toward issues female voters care about and emphasize his female hiring record.

“What I would say to that is this, that he should speak to America’s women based on the issues about which they care, prosperity and security, and he should talk about Obamacare and education and he should talk about the lies that Hillary Clinton has told over many different decades,” Conway said. “I think he should brag more about the thousands of women he has employed at the Trump Corporation over decades and the high positions that they have. They’ve been promoted, they’ve been well-compensated.”

Kelly mentioned the paradox in Trump’s treatment of women and that he never seemed to have an issue hiring or promoting them.

“That’s the interesting thing about him, Kellyanne, is that he does insult women a lot. He insults men a lot. But, by all accounts, when it comes to hiring and promotions, I haven’t heard one person say he lets gender interfere with his promotions or pay or anything like that,” Kelly concluded.